{"nrhp_refnum":"80004095","name":"Perkins Hall of Administration","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"6425 Hillcrest Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dallas","county":"Dallas County","state":"TX","lat":32.84485917500007,"lon":-96.78604428299997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-09-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Administrative building at 6425 Hillcrest Road on the Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas, Texas, built in 1916 and designed by DeWitt and Washburn.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as a good southwestern example of Georgian Revival architecture within a planned academic setting. Its areas of significance are education and architecture, evaluated at the state level. It is part of a thematic group of Georgian Revival buildings at the university.","narrative":"Perkins Hall of Administration is an L-shaped, four-story brick building at 6425 Hillcrest Road on the Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas. Completed in 1916 to designs by DeWitt and Washburn, it sits at the northwest corner of the campus quadrangle and has always housed administrative offices. The steep slate gabled roof, multi-paned windows with voussoirs and keystones, dentilled cornice, and classical motifs in the gables carry the Georgian Revival theme. The main east entrance is marked by a variety of classical forms executed in stone. The second and third floors were added in 1938 by architect Mark Lemmon. The building was listed as a good southwestern example of Georgian Revival architecture in a planned academic setting, with significance in education and architecture at the state level. It forms part of a thematic group of Georgian Revival buildings at the university, and its condition is described as good.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"DeWitt and Washburn","architectural_style":"Georgian Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Physical condition is described as good; it is still used for administrative offices, as originally.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.680676-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/38/9687/40968738/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/80004095.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80004095/94419f4283-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80004095/94419f4283-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jeffrey Beall","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Perkins_Hall_of_Administration.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeffrey Beall</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Perkins_Hall_of_Administration.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40968738","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perkins_Hall_of_Administration","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q54871224"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/dallas-county/perkins-hall-of-administration-80004095/"}